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Voltaire’s Candide, Part 1

Tafelrunde in Sanssouci (Voltaire to the left, purple, next to Casanova, red lapels), Adolph von Menzel, 1850 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Voltaire the celebrity, but… A favourite guest of celebrities...

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Voltaire’s Candide, Part 2

Tafelrunde in Sanssouci (Voltaire to the left, purple, next to Casanova, red lapels), Adolph von Menzel, 1850 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)  Quotations From Candide “It is demonstrable,” said he [Dr...

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The Idea of Absolute Music

  Renaissance Hurdy-Gurdy This article was posted in 2011, but the distinction between absolute and programmatic music is worth revisiting. The 2011 post contained the word “ineffable” and reads as...

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La Henriade

Voltaire (portrait by Nicolas de Largillière, c. 1724) The ostensible subject [of La Henriade] is the siege of Paris in 1589 by Henry III in concert with Henry of Navarre, soon to be Henry IV, but its...

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